Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy : oso/browse
Plato's Symposium//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199286775.001.0001/acprof-9780199286775
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199286775.jpg" alt="Plato's SymposiumThe Ethics of Desire"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Frisbee Sheffield</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199286775</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199286775.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2006</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2007-09-01</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This book is concerned with Plato's examination of the nature and aims of human desire, and the role that it plays in our ethical lives. For Plato, analysing our desires is a way of reflecting on the kind of people that we are, and on our prospects for a worthwhile and happy life. This assumes that desires are the sorts of thing that are amenable to such reflection. This book considers why Plato held such a view, and in what direction he thought our desires could best be shaped. The kind of relationships which typically took place at symposia was an important way in which young men learnt how to value and desire the right kinds of things, and in the appropriate manner. They were, in short, a way in which virtue was transmitted to the young. The book argues that seen in this light, the Symposium belongs amongst those dialogues concerned with moral education. The Symposium offers a distinctive approach to central Platonic themes concerning education, virtue, epistemology, and moral psychology, one that is grounded in an account of the nature and goals of a loving relationship.</p>Frisbee Sheffield2007-09-01Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw//chicago.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7208/chicago/9780226398204.001.0001/upso-9780226398174
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780226398174.jpg" alt="Rhetoric in Tooth and ClawAnimals, Language, Sensation"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Debra Hawhee</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780226398174</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University of Chicago Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.7208/chicago/9780226398204.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2016</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2017-05-18</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>For centuries, since its inception in fact, rhetoric has been conceived of as an exclusively human art. Only humans, after all, could artfully use language, the very definition of rhetoric. And yet pre- and early-modern treatises about rhetoric are crawling with animals of the nonhuman variety. This book examines the enduring presence of nonhuman animals in rhetorical theory and rhetorical education. In doing so, it brings rhetorical studies into ongoing conversations about animals in the humanities while also offering a counter-history of rhetoric and rhetorical education, one that resists the usual reason-based, cerebral approach and focuses instead on sensation and movement. The book therefore offers a new theoretical perspective on rhetoric’s history: rather than presuming, as most histories of rhetoric do, the centrality of logos as reasoned argumentation, this history stresses energy, bodies, and sensation, all crucial components of language and communication. Without these components, and without the nonhuman animals that draw them out, words are dead and lifeless, unable to perform any of the three basic aims ascribed to the art of rhetoric by the ancients: to teach, to delight, and—above all—to move.</p>Debra Hawhee2017-05-18Plutarch Against Colotes//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199597239.001.0001/acprof-9780199597239
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199597239.jpg" alt="Plutarch Against ColotesA Lesson in History of Philosophy"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Eleni Kechagia</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199597239</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199597239.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2011</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2012-01-19</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Plutarch's philosophical work remained largely in the shadow of his celebrated Lives, partly because it was often dubbed ‘popular philosophy’, and partly because it was thought to be lacking in originality. This book contributes to the ‘rehabilitation’ of Plutarch as a serious philosopher by discussing his work as a teacher, interpreter, and, eventually, historian of philosophy. It offers a critical analysis of Plutarch's anti-Epicurean treatise Against Colotes — a unique text that is rich in philosophical material and has been widely used as a source for ancient Greek philosophy but has not been studied in its own right so far. Combining a historical approach with structural analysis and close reading of selected sections of the text, the book demonstrates that Plutarch engaged with the philosophy of his past in a creative way. By refuting Colotes' Epicurean arguments against the main Greek philosophers up to the Hellenistic era, Plutarch gives an insightful critical assessment of the philosophy of his past and teaches his readers how to go about doing and reading philosophy. The book concludes that Plutarch emerges as a respected critic whose ‘reviews’ of the past philosophical theories are an essential companion when trying to piece together the puzzle of ancient Greek philosophy.</p>Eleni Kechagia2012-01-19Aristotle as Poet//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199733293.001.0001/acprof-9780199733293
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199733293.jpg" alt="Aristotle as PoetThe Song for Hermias and Its Contexts"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Andrew L. Ford</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199733293</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199733293.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2011</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2012-01-19</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This book studies Aristotle’s poetic activity in light of an ode he composed commemorating Hermias of Atarneus, his father in law and patron in the 340’s BCE. This remarkable text is said to have later embroiled the philosopher in charges of impiety and so is studied both from a literary perspective and as a window onto the poetic practices of the later fourth century. Aristotle’s literary antecedents are studied with an unprecedented fullness that considers the entire range of the literary tradition, including poems by Sappho, Pindar, and Sophocles, and prose texts as well. Particular attention is paid to understanding the ancient report that political opponents of Aristotle charged him with impiety on the grounds that his song was actually a hymn to Hermias that implied the latter had become a god. Aristotle’s song affords a case study in how Greek poetic texts functioned as performance pieces and how they were recorded, circulated, and preserved. The book argues that Greek lyric poems profit from being read as scripts for performances that both shaped and were shaped by the social occasions in which they were performed. Studying the lyric in light of the history of its interpretation leads to a more fine-tuned appreciation for its literary dynamics and provides a window onto the literary culture of the late classical age.</p>Andrew L. Ford2012-01-19Epicurean Ethics in Horace//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198786559.001.0001/oso-9780198786559
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780198786559.jpg" alt="Epicurean Ethics in HoraceThe Psychology of Satire"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Sergio Yona</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780198786559</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/oso/9780198786559.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2018</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2018-03-22</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Over the centuries leading up to their composition many genres and authors have emerged as influences on Horace’s Satires, which in turn has led to a wide variety of scholarly interpretations. This study aims to expand the existing dialogue by exploring further the intersection of ancient satire and ethics, focusing on the moral tradition of Epicureanism through the lens of one source in particular: Philodemus of Gadara. An Epicurean philosopher who wrote for a Roman audience and was one of Horace’s contemporaries and neighbors in Italy, offers a range of ethical treatises on subjects including patronage, friendship, flattery, frankness, poverty, and wealth. This book offers a serious consideration of the role of Philodemus’ Epicurean teachings in Horace’s Satires and argues that the central concerns of the philosopher’s work not only lie at the heart of the poet’s criticisms of Roman society and its shortcomings, but also lend to the collection a certain coherence and overall unity in its underlying convictions. It provides an examination of the deep and pervasive influence of this moral tradition on Horace’s satiric poetry which also manages to reveal something of the poet behind the literary mask or persona through its elucidation of the philosophically consistent nature of Horace’s self-representation in these poems.</p>Sergio Yona2018-03-22The Elegiac Passion//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199925902.001.0001/acprof-9780199925902
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199925902.jpg" alt="The Elegiac PassionJealousy in Roman Love Elegy"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Ruth Rothaus Caston</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199925902</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199925902.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2012</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2013-01-24</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>The passions were a topic of widespread interest in antiquity. This is a study on their role in Roman love elegy (1st c. BCE), a genre rife with passions and jealousy in particular. Jealousy does appear in a number of earlier genres, but never with the centrality and importance it has in elegy. This book offers an exceptional opportunity to investigate the ancient representation of jealousy in its Roman context, as well as its significance for Roman love elegy itself. The narrators portray themselves as poets and as experts of love, championing a view of love that stands in marked contrast to the criticisms that Stoic and Epicurean philosophers had raised. Elegy provides rich evidence of the genesis and development of erotic jealousy: we find suspicions and rumors of infidelity, obsessive attention to visual clues, and accusations and confrontations with the beloved. The Roman elegists depict the susceptibility and reactions to jealousy along gendered lines, with an asymmetric representation of skepticism and belief, violence and restraint. But jealousy has ramifications well beyond the erotic affair. Underlying jealousy are fears about fides or trust and the vulnerability of human relations. These are prominent in love relationships, of course, but the term has broader application in the Roman world, and the poetic narrator often extends his fears about trust into many other dimensions of life, including friendship, religion, and politics. The infidelity rampant in the love affair indicates a more general breakdown of trust in other human relations. All of these features have implications for the genre itself. Many of the distinctive elements of Roman elegy—its first-person narration, obsessive recordkeeping, and role-playing—can be seen to derive from the thematic concern with jealousy. As such, jealousy provides a new way of understanding the distinctive features of Roman love elegy.</p>Ruth Rothaus Caston2013-01-24The Author's Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199670567.001.0001/acprof-9780199670567
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199670567.jpg" alt="The Author's Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>AnnaMarmodoroAnna MarmodoroFellow in Philosophy, Corpus Christi College, University of OxfordJonathanHillJonathan HillResearch Officer, University of Oxford</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199670567</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199670567.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2013</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2014-01-23</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>What significance does the voice or projected persona in which a text is written have for our understanding of the meaning of that text? This volume explores the persona of the author in antiquity, from Homer to late antiquity, taking into account both Latin and Greek authors from a range of disciplines. It contains chapters on pseudepigraphy and fictional letters, as well as the use of texts as authoritative in philosophical schools, and the ancient ascription of authorship to works of art. The thirteen essays are divided into two main sections, the first of which focusses on the diverse forms of writing adopted by various ancient authors, and the different ways these forms were used to present and project an authorial voice. The second part of the volume considers questions regarding authority and ascription in relation to the authorial voice. In particular, the volume looks at how later readers—and authors of later texts—may understand the authority of a text's author or supposed author.</p>Anna Marmodoro and Jonathan Hill2014-01-23The Archaeology of Greece and Rome//edinburgh.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474417099.001.0001/upso-9781474417099
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9781474417099.jpg" alt="The Archaeology of Greece and RomeStudies in Honour of Anthony Snodgrass"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>JohnBintliffJohn BintliffUniversity of EdinburghN. KeithRutterN. Keith RutterUniversity of Edinburgh</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9781474417099</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Edinburgh University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.3366/edinburgh/9781474417099.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2016</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2018-05-24</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Over his long and illustrious career as Lecturer, Reader and Professor in Edinburgh University (1961-1976), Lawrence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge (1976-2001) and currently Fellow of the McDonald Institute of Archaeology at Cambridge, Anthony Snodgrass has influenced and been associated with a long series of eminent classical archaeologists, historians and linguists .In acknowledgement of his immense academic achievement, this collection of essays by a range of international scholars reflects his wide-ranging research interests: Greek prehistory, the Greek Iron Age and Archaic era, Greek texts and Archaeology, Classical Art History, societies on the fringes of the Greek and Roman world, and Regional Field Survey. Not only do they celebrate his achievements but they also represent new avenues of research which will have a broad appeal.</p>John Bintliff and N. Keith Rutter2018-05-24Selfhood and the Soul//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198777250.001.0001/acprof-9780198777250
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780198777250.jpg" alt="Selfhood and the SoulEssays on Ancient Thought and Literature in Honour of Christopher Gill"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>RichardSeafordRichard SeafordEmeritus Professor of Greek, University of ExeterJohnWilkinsJohn WilkinsEmeritus Professor of Greek Culture, University of ExeterMatthewWrightMatthew WrightAssociate Professor of Classics, University of Exeter</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780198777250</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198777250.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2017</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2017-03-23</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This is a collection of new and original essays arising from a conference held in 2013 to mark Christopher Gill’s retirement from the chair of Ancient Thought at Exeter. All the essays in the volume contribute to a shared project—the exploration of ancient concepts of selfhood and the soul, understood in a broad sense—and, like the work of the honorand himself, these essays range widely across disciplinary boundaries between ancient philosophy, psychology, medical writing, and literary criticism. The thirteen contributions, which can be read separately or together, are marked by a diversity of approach and subject matter, as well as a commitment to examining central issues about the self, the experience of being a person, and the question of how best to live. The reader is taken on a journey through topics and themes including money, love, hope, pleasure, rage, free will, metempsychosis, Roman imperialism, cookery, and the underworld. In this way the volume aspires to its honorand’s remarkable combination of range with focus. The international line-up of contributors includes many established figures in the fields of classical literature, philosophy, and ancient medicine, as well as several younger scholars.</p>Richard Seaford, John Wilkins, and Matthew Wright2017-03-23Wounded Heroes//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199672783.001.0001/acprof-9780199672783
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199672783.jpg" alt="Wounded HeroesVulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Marina Berzins McCoy</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199672783</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199672783.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2013</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2014-01-01</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Vulnerability is not often associated with virtue. Yet to be vulnerable is central to human experience. In this book, McCoy examines ways in which Greek epic, tragedy, and philosophy have important insights to offer about the nature of human vulnerability and how human beings might better come to terms with their own vulnerability. While studies of Greek heroism and virtue often focus on strength of character, prowess in war, or the achievement of honour for oneself or one’s society, McCoy examines another side to Greek thought that extols the recognition and proper acceptance of vulnerability. McCoy begins with the literary works of Homer’s Iliad, Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Philoctetes before expanding her analysis to philosophical works. There, she analyzes imagery of wounding in Plato’s Gorgias and Symposium as well as Aristotle’s work on the vulnerability inherent in friendship and an innovative interpretation of tragic catharsis in the Poetics. As much a work of philosophy as of classical textual analysis, McCoy’s work aims at a deeper understanding of the virtues of vulnerability for individuals and societies alike.</p>Marina Berzins McCoy2014-01-01Rome Season Two//edinburgh.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400275.001.0001/upso-9781474400275
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9781474400275.jpg" alt="Rome Season TwoTrial and Triumph"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>MonicaCyrinoMonica CyrinoUniversity of New Mexico</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9781474400275</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Edinburgh University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400275.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2015</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2016-01-21</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Rome Season Two: Trial and Triumph is a collection of seventeen original research essays that responds to the critical and commercial success of the second season of the HBO television series, Rome (2005-07). While Rome gained immediate notoriety for its heady mix of exceptionally high production values with gripping performances and plot lines, the series also offers a new visual, narrative, and thematic aesthetic for the depiction of the tumultuous period after Caesar’s assassination, and in particular, the struggle between Octavian and Antony, the role of Cleopatra, and the story’s many received meanings. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which Rome nods to earlier receptions of ancient Rome as well as to more recent popular onscreen recreations of antiquity, while at the same time the series applies new techniques of interrogation to current social issues and concerns. The contributors to this volume are all authorities in their various sub-fields of ancient history and literature, whose academic work also engages expertly with popular culture and modern media appropriations and adaptations of the ancient world. Individual chapters address questions of politics, war, and history, while examining the representation of gender and sexuality, race and class, spectacle and violence, all in the setting of late Republican Rome. This volume considers the second season of Rome as a provocative contribution to the understanding of how specific threads of classical reception are constantly being reinvented to suit contemporary tastes, aspirations, and anxieties.</p>Monica Cyrino2016-01-21Plotinus on Number//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377194.001.1/acprof-9780195377194
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780195377194.jpg" alt="Plotinus on Number"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Svetla Slaveva-Griffin</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780195377194</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377194.001.1</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2009</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2009-05-01</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This book examines Plotinus’ concept of number, one of the most difficult and obscure topics in Neoplatonism. The book argues that Plotinus is the first philosopher who explains the Platonic “true number” and the quantitative mathematical numbers in a conceptually informed relationship as between an intelligible paradigm and its sense-perceptible image. Throughout the Enneads and especially in Ennead VI.6, the treatise On Numbers, Plotinus systematically peels off the layers of mathematical and quantitative perception from the concept of number to reveal that real number is the primary activity of substance (ousia), which orders the unfolding of the universe from its absolute source into a finite multiplicity. The book traces the development of Plotinus’ concepts of number and multiplicity in Plato’s Timaeus, Aristotle’s criticism of Plato’s view of number, and Neopythagoreanism. This analysis establishes number to be the building block of the intelligible realm and the architecture of the universe in Plotinus. For him, as for his Platonic and Neopythagorean predecessors, the universe has a meaning, enciphered by number. In this light, Plotinus’ concept of number is the fundamental link between the number theories of the Neopythagoreans and the later Neoplatonists.</p>Svetla Slaveva-Griffin2009-05-01Variety//chicago.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7208/chicago/9780226299525.001.0001/upso-9780226299495
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780226299495.jpg" alt="VarietyThe Life of a Roman Concept"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>William Fitzgerald</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780226299495</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University of Chicago Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.7208/chicago/9780226299525.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2016</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2016-09-22</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This book investigates the concept, value and poetics of variety, with a particular focus on the Roman concept of varietas and on Latin literature. It divides into two parts, the first belonging to the field of the history of ideas and the second to literary criticism. It argues that a combination of synonyms, antonyms, metaphors, commonplaces and conceptual issues form a distinctive cluster around the Latin word varius and its vernacular derivates, and identifies this ‘variety complex’ in its ancient and modern incarnations with particular reference to ideas of nature, creativity (human and divine), aesthetics and politics. The second part of the book begins by considering how the concept of variety functions in the work of particular Latin authors (Pliny the Younger, Lucretius and Horace); it proceeds to examine how the literary forms of the list and the priamel frame the experience of variety in different genres of Latin poetry, and, finally, describes how variety functions in the genre of the miscellany, with particular attention to the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius. The study has its roots in Latin literature and language but ranges widely over European literature and thought of all periods to analyse the significance of an important but neglected value.</p>William Fitzgerald2016-09-22All From One//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199640331.001.0001/acprof-9780199640331
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199640331.jpg" alt="All From OneA Guide to Proclus"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Pieterd'HoinePieter d'HoineAssistant Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Intellectual History, KU LeuvenMarijeMartjinMarije MartjinCornelia de Vogel Professor of Ancient and Patristic Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199640331</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199640331.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2016</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2017-01-19</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Proclus (AD 412–85) was one of the last official ‘successors’ of Plato at the head of the Academy in Athens at the end of antiquity, before the school was finally closed down in 529. As a prolific author of systematic works on a wide range of topics and one of the most influential commentators on Plato of all times, the legacy of Proclus in the cultural history of the west can hardly be overestimated. This book introduces the reader to Proclus’ life and works, his place in the Platonic tradition of antiquity, and the influence his work exerted in later ages. Various chapters are devoted to Proclus’ metaphysical system, including his doctrines about the first principle of all reality, the One, and about the Forms and the soul. The broad range of Proclus’ thought is further illustrated by highlighting his contribution to philosophy of nature, scientific theory, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of language. Finally, also his most original doctrines on evil and providence, his Neoplatonic virtue ethics, his complex views on theology and religious practice, and his metaphysical aesthetics receive separate treatments.</p>Pieter d'Hoine and Marije Martjin2017-01-19Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought//edinburgh.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474410991.001.0001/upso-9781474410991
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9781474410991.jpg" alt="Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>RichardSeafordRichard SeafordUniversity of Exeter</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9781474410991</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Edinburgh University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.3366/edinburgh/9781474410991.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2016</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2018-01-18</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This book focuses from various perspectives on the striking similarities (as well as the concomitant differences) between early Greek and early Indian thought. In both cultures there occurred at about the same time the birth of 'philosophy', the idea of the universe as an intelligible order in which personal deity is (at most) marginal and the inner self is at the centre of attention. The similarities include a pentadic structure of narrative and cosmology, a basic conception of cosmic order or harmony, a close relationship between universe and inner self, techniques of soteriological inwardness and self-immortalisation, the selflessness of theory, envisaging the inner self as a chariot, the interiorisation of ritual, and ethicised reincarnation. Explanations for the similarites are a shared Indo-European origin, parallel socio-economic development, and influence in one direction or the other.</p>Richard Seaford2018-01-18Philosophers in the "Republic"//cornell.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7591/cornell/9780801449741.001.0001/upso-9780801449741
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780801449741.jpg" alt="Philosophers in the &#34;Republic&#34;Plato's Two Paradigms"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Roslyn Weiss</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780801449741</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Cornell University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.7591/cornell/9780801449741.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2012</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2016-08-18</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>In Plato's Republic, Socrates contends that philosophers make the best rulers because only they behold with their mind's eye the eternal and purely intelligible Forms of the Just, the Noble, and the Good. When they are endowed with an array of moral, intellectual, and personal virtues and appropriately educated, surely no one could doubt the wisdom of entrusting to them the governance of cities? Although it is widely assumed that all the Republic's philosophers are the same, the Republic actually contains two distinct portrayals of the philosopher. According to the book, Plato's two paradigms of the philosopher are the “philosopher by nature” and the “philosopher by design.” Philosophers by design, as the allegory of the Cave vividly shows, must be forcibly dragged from the material world of pleasure to the sublime realm of the intellect, and from there back down again to the “Cave” to rule the beautiful city envisioned by Socrates and his interlocutors. Yet philosophers by nature, are distinguished by their natural yearning to encounter the transcendent realm of pure Forms, as well as by a willingness to serve others—at least under appropriate circumstances. In contrast to both sets of philosophers stands Socrates, who represents a third paradigm, one that is only hinted at in the Republic. As a man who not only loves “what is” but is also utterly devoted to the justice of others, Socrates surpasses both the philosophers by design and the philosophers by nature. This book aims to challenge Plato scholars to revisit their assumptions about Plato's moral and political philosophy.</p>Roslyn Weiss2016-08-18Plato and the City//liverpool.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5949/liverpool/9780859896535.001.0001/upso-9780859896535
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/assets/7414b320f62291ade5e0860ed92de76140be705d/skins/upso/skin/images/default.gif" alt="Plato and the CityA New Introduction to Plato's Political Thought"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Jean-Francois PradeauJanetLloydJanet Lloyd</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780859896535</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Liverpool University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5949/liverpool/9780859896535.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2002</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2014-05-29</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This is a general introduction to Plato's political thought. It covers the main periods of Platonic thought, examining those dialogues that best show how Plato makes the city's unity the aim of politics and then makes the quest for that unity the aim of philosophy. From the psychological model (the city is like a great soul) to the physiological definition (the city is a living being), the reader can traverse the whole of Plato's oeuvre, and understand it as a political philosophy. The book is designed to be an undergraduate textbook but will also be of interest to scholars. It is an English translation of Platon et la cité, published in French by Presses Universitaires de France in 1997 as part of the series Philosophies, and offers English-speaking readers access to a more unifying continental European reading of Plato than is common in UK or North American scholarship.</p>Jean-Francois Pradeau2014-05-29Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom//cornell.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7591/cornell/9780801453168.001.0001/upso-9780801453168
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780801453168.jpg" alt="Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Mary P. Nichols</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780801453168</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Cornell University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.7591/cornell/9780801453168.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2014</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2016-08-18</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This book argues for the centrality of the idea of freedom in Thucydides's thought. Through a close reading of his History of the Peloponnesian War, the book explores the manifestations of this theme. Cities and individuals in Thucydides's history take freedom as their goal, whether they claim to possess it and want to maintain it or whether they desire to attain it for themselves or others. Freedom is the goal of both antagonists in the Peloponnesian War, Sparta and Athens, although in different ways. One of the fullest expressions of freedom can be seen in the rhetoric of Thucydides's Pericles, especially in his famous funeral oration. More than simply documenting the struggle for freedom, however, Thucydides himself is taking freedom as his cause. On the one hand, he demonstrates that freedom makes possible human excellence, including courage, self-restraint, deliberation, and judgment, which support freedom in turn. On the other hand, the pursuit of freedom, in one's own regime and in the world at large, clashes with interests and material necessity, and indeed the very passions required for its support. Thucydides's work, which he himself considered a possession for all time, therefore speaks very much to our time, encouraging the defense of freedom while warning of the limits and dangers in doing so.</p>Mary P. Nichols2016-08-18Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199781683.001.0001/acprof-9780199781683
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199781683.jpg" alt="Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Emma Gee</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199781683</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199781683.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2013</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2014-01-23</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This book is a study of a Hellenistic didactic poem, the Phaenomena, written by Aratus in c.276 BC, and of its reception, primarily in the Roman period up to the fourth century AD. Aratus’ poem about the stars and weather-signs immediately acquired a popularity baffling to the modern reader; it was translated into Latin many times between the first century BC and the Renaissance, and carried lasting influence outside its immediate genre. This book answers the question of Aratus’ popularity by looking at the poem in the light of Western cosmology. It argues that the Phaenomena is the ideal vehicle for the integration of astronomical ‘data’ into abstract cosmology, a defining feature of the Western tradition. This book embeds Aratus’ text into a close network of textual interactions, beginning with the text itself and ending in the sixteenth century, with Copernicus. All conversations between the text and its successors experiment in some way with the balance between cosmology and information. The text was not an inert objet d’art, but a dynamic entity which took on colours often conflictual in the ongoing debate about the place and role of the stars in the world. In this debate Aratus plays a leading, but by no means lonely, role. Many texts which have not been considered as part of the repertoire of Aratean studies are also present, with Aratus himself as the harmonizing force between texts and concepts often disparate, even at odds.</p>Emma Gee2014-01-23Beauty//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199927265.001.0001/acprof-9780199927265
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199927265.jpg" alt="BeautyThe Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>David Konstan</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199927265</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199927265.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2015</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2014-11-20</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This book has two aims. The first is to determine how the ancient Greeks conceived of beauty—a matter that is not uncontroversial, since some scholars have denied that there existed an autonomous concept of beauty in classical Greece. This question is addressed by an investigation of Greek terminology, singling out in particular, and for the first time, the significance of the noun kállos, as opposed to the adjective kalós. On this basis, the book addresses the role of beauty in sexual attraction, class, art, Platonic idealism, and other areas, and offers a comparison between Greek, Hebrew, and Latin terms for beauty. The book’s second aim is to identify problems that have beset modern aesthetics, such as whether a work of art can be beautiful if its subject matter is not, and to indicate why these difficulties did not pose a problem for the ancient idea of beauty. In the process, the book shows how beauty lost its preeminent place as the central concept in modern aesthetics, and how the ancient conception may contribute to restoring beauty, if not to its former preeminence, at least to a auxiliary role in our understanding of desire and of art.</p>David Konstan2014-11-20